Roniel Iglesias
Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo ( born August 14, 1988 in Pinar del Río ) is a Cuban boxer. He was Pan-American champion in 2008, 2009 and 2010, winner of the Pan American Games 2011 bronze medalist at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, 2009 World Champion and Olympic champion in 2012.
Career
Roniel Iglesias comes from a boxing family enthusiastic. He started at a young age with the boxes and was already 16 years, not only to the best Cuban junior boxers, but also to the best Cuban seniors. He starts for the power center of Pinar del Río. In 2005 he started, not yet 17 years old at the Cuban Veterans Championships in flyweight and was to the surprise of all the experts, after five partially defeated much older boxer, with a points victory ( 27:8 ) in the final over Kadel Luis Cuban Senior Master. He profited, however, believe that the Cuban world champion was forced to retire due to injury in this weight class Yuriolkis Gamboa during the Tournament. Even the big boxing tournament of the Cuban boxing federation Giraldo Córdova Cardín in Havana he won the flyweight and defeated it Yoandri Salina, Mirzhan Rachim Ishanow from Kazakhstan and again Kadel Luis on points.
However, at the Pan-American Championships in 2005 Teresopolis / Brazil, he retired after a victory over Aaron Cumberbatch from Trinidad in the semifinals with one defeat against Brazilian Helder Gonzaga, but thus won the bronze medal in the flyweight. In the same year he was defeated in an international match in Sannois / France and the French Jerome Thomas on points.
In 2006 Roniel Iglesias took to the Cuban Championships Bantamweight the 3rd place, after he had made it clear in the semifinal against Idel Torriente lost by points ( 11:28 ). During the subsequent 3 Cuban Olympiad in Havana, he started in the featherweight and defeated there his strong compatriot Ivan Onate on points. But in the quarter-finals of this tournament, he defeated the Chinese Li Yang just by points ( 9:11 ) and thus retired. As he grew quickly, he also got problems quickly to start in the lower weight classes. He did so the only right and moved up in weight classes that corresponded to its size. For this reason, he started at the Junior World Championship 2006 in Agadir at lightweight. He also came in this weight class cope brilliantly and was with a points victory ( 33:15 ) over Dario Vangeli of Italy, a demolition victory over Ruiz, Pakistan, a points victory ( 39:24 ) over Everton Lopes, Brazil, a demolition victory over Imil Iksanow from Russia and a points victory ( 39:18 ) over Azamat Smagulow from Kazakhstan Junior World Champion.
In the Cuban Championship in 2007, he started at lightweight and triumphed over Yoendri Leyva, Orelis Pérez Díaz and Vladimir. But in the final he defeated the reigning world champion Yordenis Ugas convincingly on points ( 8:21 ) and had to settle for runner-up title content. Against the same boxer he was defeated in the final of the Giraldo Córdova Cardín - Tournament in Santa Clara ( 6:15 ). This opens the way to the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro and the 2007 World Championships in Chicago he was denied because Yordenis Ugas had shown this year as the best Cuban boxers in the lightweight. He started in 2007 still at the tournament Batalla de Carabobo in Venezuela but had to in his first fight a surprising point defeat ( 10:26 ) against the Venezuelan Jesús Quadro accept.
The year 2007 was completed in Cuba with the championship of the centers of excellence at the opposite were the best Cuban boxers. Roniel Iglesias celebrated here in five battles he had to deny the lightweight, five wins and defeated it Yordi Odelin, Exer Rodríguez, Elecier Valle, Yoendris Leyva and Luis Franco.
After winning the Cuban champion flyweight title in 2005 Roniel Iglesias won in 2008, his second Cuban championship, but four weight classes higher in the light welterweight. His Endkampfgegner was about Hector Frometa, defeated by the crash in the 2nd round. He also won then at the 4th Cuban Olympiad in Havana with a final victory over his compatriot Richard Poll, he handling services 8-1 hits. Even with the very important for him Qualifying Tournament of the U.S. boxers for the Olympic Games 2008 in Port of Spain / Trinidad to Roniel Iglesias was in excellent shape. He defeated there in the light welterweight Jesse Vargas from Mexico to points ( 25:8 ), was Luis Gonzalez of Puerto Rico demolition winner in the third round and then beat Javier Molina from the USA ( 10:4 ) and Johnny Sanchez from Venezuela (9: 3) each on points, making him the winner of the tournament and the Olympic qualification in the bag had.
In a subsequent trip to Europe the Cuban national team ran it for him but not good. He was defeated at the Grand Prix tournament in Ústí nad Labem ( Usti nad Labem ) is surprisingly the Australian Todd Kidd by points ( 17:22 ) and was the Strandja Tournament in Plovdiv / Bulgaria in the final of the half Weltergewichtes of Boris Georgiev from Bulgaria pretty clear on points (8: 26) defeated. Back in America, he was also subject to Batalla de Carabobo at the tournament in his first fight against Jesús Quadro from Venezuela by points ( 10:26 ), but which astonished the height of his point residue. That he can still win, but then he showed at the Pan American Championships 2008 in Cuenca / Ecuador, where he won the title in the light welterweight with victories over Ualace Almeida, Brazil, Mario Agua Ale Castro from Ecuador and Victor Pinango from Venezuela.
At the Beijing Games, he won over Babou Mahaman Smaila, Cameroon (15:1), Driss Moussaid, Morocco ( 15:4 ) and Gennadi Kowaljew, Russia ( 5:2 ) safe on points. In the semifinals, but he was defeated by Manus Boonjumnong from Thailand to points ( 5:10 ) and thus won a bronze medal. At the end of 2008, he came at the World Cup in Moscow even to a tournament victory. He defeated there romal Amanow, Azerbaijan ( 18:6 ), Alexander Ivanov, Russia ( 18:6 ) and Uranchimegiin Munkh - Erdene, Mongolia ( 16:2 ) respectively clearly on points.
2009 started Roniel Iglesias, after he already had the Pan-American Championships with a final victory over Ramses Garcia, Mexico ( 12:5 ) won in the boxing world championship in Milan. He came there to five wins, inter alia, in the semi-final against Uranchimegiin Mönkh - Erdene, Mongolia ( 6:4 ), and won the final convincingly against the 17 year old American Frankie Gomez ( 8-2 ) with which he crowned his career by winning the world title.
2010 won the Pan-American Championships Iglesias again with a final victory over Juan Pablo Romero, Mexico ( 10:2 ), and in the following year the Pan American Games with a final victory over Valentino Knowles, Bahamas ( 22:14 ). At the world championships in the same year Iglesias surprisingly lost already his first fight against eventual runners- Denys Berinchyk, Ukraine ( 19:19 ). The so missed qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games after he won the U.S. Olympic qualifying tournament in Rio de Janeiro, where he among other things, to Siegen in the semi-final against César Villarraga, Colombia ( 14:7 ), and in the final against Francisco Vargas, Puerto Rico ( 12:7 ), won the first place and thus qualified for the Olympic Games in London.
At the Olympics he beat in the preliminary round César Villarraga, Colombia ( 20:9 ), in the second round the reigning world champion Éverton Lopes, Brazil (18-15 ) in the quarterfinals against Oktamjon Raxmonov, Uzbekistan ( 21:15 ), and in the semi-finals the bronze medalist Vincenzo Mangiacapre, Italy ( 15:8 ). In the final he beat then Denys Berinchyk, Ukraine ( 22:15 ), and thus retaliated for the early defeat at the World Championships last year. Iglesias won so that the Olympic gold medal in light welterweight. Iglesias ended the year by winning the national championships.
International ban by the Cuban Association
In August 2013, the Cuban Boxing Association (FCB ) imposed shortly before the planned departure to a meet against Mexico one year of international competition suspension against Iglesias. In support was referred to unspecified " indiscipline ", which the boxer had been guilty. However, depending on his Verhalthne was possible later return in the country. As substitutes for the national team of FCB Luis Oliva nominated.
International success
Note: OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight, light welterweight, to 51 kg, 54 kg, 57 kg, 60 kg and 64 kg body weight